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Bloom & Wild
Online gifting
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- Lifestyle
- Flowers
- Consumer Goods
- eCommerce
- Vauxhall, London, UK
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Company mission
To build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.
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64% female employees
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform supplying a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones. Its product approach is to sell flowers as bouquets, with smaller bouquets being able to fit through a typical UK mail slot in a small box, making it extremely easy to deliver.
The company operates across a number of countries, including Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands. It has utilised its two acquired businesses - Netherlands-based Bloomon, and French competitor Bergamotte - to expand the range of products it offers and reach new customers. It also launched a subscription service for consumers purchasing flowers for their own homes.
Expanding beyond its digital roots, Bloom & Wild has experimented with physical retail concepts - most notably its launch in Sainsbury’s stores. On top of international expansion, significant funding, and a unique concept, the company has become a recognised brand and surely positioned itself for a bright future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 🌻 Work that works for you
- Flexible working (core hours from 10-4pm)
- Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year
- Summer hours: Friday afternoons off during July and August (trialling in 2024)
- Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
- Enhanced family leave policy and a workplace nursery scheme
- 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart
- 🌴 Time off
- 25 days’ holiday + your birthday and bank holidays each year
- Option to buy an extra 5 days’ holiday each year
- Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar
- 🌱 Health & Wellbeing
- Health cash plan through Simplyhealth
- Mental health support through Open Up, including access to online therapy sessions
- Allies and champions groups
- Mental Health First Aiders and awareness training for our managers
- In person yoga & wellbeing wagon!
- Cycle to work scheme
- Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going
- Financial wellbeing support through Bippit
- Workplace pension contributions
- 🌳 Growth & Development
- A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme
- Mentee and mentor opportunities with our external partners, such as The Women's Association and Future Founders
- Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics
- 💐 Moments that matter
- Social & wellbeing monthly calendar
- We love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other important milestones!
- Summer and End of Year events,, team lunches and post-peak celebrations
- Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!
Company values
- Lead Change for Good - We are leaders of our industry in making change for good. Change that benefits our customers, our community and the planet. We have the guts to try new things even when no one else has done them before. As a team, we're prepared to take on more than our fair share of responsibility to do the things which matter most.
- Think Deeply, Act Swiftly - We think deeply about opportunities and problems to be solved together. Our insights informed approach is always backed up with thoughtful rationale. We act swiftly in implementing new ideas that we think will have impact for our customers and our business.
- Care Wildly - We build brilliant experiences for our customers and our team and create deep connections with each other. We pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the little things that make a difference. We have serious fun doing what we love!
- Stay Open, Be Curious - We learn through our differences and invite diverse perspectives. We're open about what we're doing and why. Most of all, we're curious and welcome challenges from each other and from our customers.
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$38m
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$94.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $159.7m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Aron Gelbard
(CEO)Previously a consulting manager at Bain & Company. Has an MBA from Harvard.
Ben Stanway
(Board Director)Founder and Partner at Habrok, a global equity hedge fund. Co-Founder & co-CEO at Moneybox.
People progressing
Emily joined us as a Senior Growth Analyst in 2021, and after a number of promotions, became our our Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics in 2024 🚀
From medicine, to accounting, to Bloom & Wild! Marie joined our Finance team in 2021, and now leads Financial Reporting for the Group 📈
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Supportive management (2)
Challenging work (1)
Opportunities to learn (1)
Career progression (1)
My opinions are valued (1)
Thoughtful onboarding (1)
Strong leadership (1)
Clear values (1)
Onboarding new employees at Bloom & Wild is superb. Even during the current difficult remote working environment, special care has been taken to ensure all new employees are welcomed and given everything they need from equipment to meeting the wider teams.
Software Engineering
Thoughtful onboarding
Dec 2020
Regular catch-ups with your line manager allow any problems to be openly discussed. Pathways for career progression are clearly laid out with managers encouraging employees to use their (very generous) annual training budget.
Software Engineering
Supportive management
Dec 2020
Bloom & Wild's CEO Aron is a wonderful leader. He has built a fantastic management team and allows the SLT great autonomy. During the early stages of the Covid crisis, Aron took the incredibly brave decision to move the company to remote working despite the following week being the company's busiest in the run up to Mother's Day.
Software Engineering
Strong leadership
Dec 2020
We have 5 values which we apply to our work and our communication with customers
Software Engineering
Clear values
Dec 2020
I have regular checkins with my manager. They take my concerns seriously and support me when needed
Software Engineering
Supportive management
Dec 2020
We are not confined to the department we work in, but asked for and invited to share ideas on other areas of the business to make improvements.
Software Engineering
My opinions are valued
Dec 2020
Fresh projects to work on, exciting D&I initiatives, creating new processes to set in place for current and future employees
People, HR, Recruitment
Challenging work
Nov 2020
Given a L&D allowance, constantly learning what colleagues outside of our departments do, very transparent organisation
People, HR, Recruitment
Opportunities to learn
Nov 2020
Yearly performance review/progression meetings
People, HR, Recruitment
Career progression
Nov 2020
